We have been visiting with friends since last Sunday and helping out around the house but mostly eating really fine meals prepared for us here by Mary. Jim and I have been hanging together and getting silly with electrical reparations on Marion St. Jazz has truly enjoyed being in a house for a while, too.
I made some intro's of us to two local homeschooling co-ops and Megan and Jazz have attended some planned social events this past week. That has been very cool.
You may remember us trying to leave Texas after a month plus of being in that state. We headed up into Fort Davis and stayed there for almost a week helping those nice folks out there fix up the camp site then on our last two days in Texas we headed north toward New Mexico. On the way, some eighty miles north of Fort Davis, we stopped into a refreshing Texas state park called Balmorhea State Park http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/balmorhea/
Check this web place out if you have the time. In short, it has water and lots of it. A rather unusual phenomenon for the desert in Texas. We had not seen water, other than the shower in the morning for over a month as we pulled into the park and we were determined to swim and get wet, good and wet. Jasper in swimming in the roped off shallow end we started off in. Beyond the roping is the beginning of the 25 foot natural bottom section and it continues and swings around to the right for the rest of the pool where you can see Meg and jazz jumping into the very other opposi
te end of the horseshoe shape.
You can . also see Jazz jumping off of the 8' high dive board while Megan jumps off the deck adjacent to him. We just kept playing until we just had to leave.
te end of the horseshoe shape.
You can . also see Jazz jumping off of the 8' high dive board while Megan jumps off the deck adjacent to him. We just kept playing until we just had to leave.The pool is 
77,000 square feet (1 3/4 acres) and hold almost 4 million gallons of very fresh constantly cycling spring water that is constantly 72 - 74 degrees. The spring that feeds this pool (San Solomon Springs) pushes up 22 - 28 million gallons of water each day through the pool. The really cool part is that it has a deep section of 25 feet that is all natural bottom and has all natural fish species swimming right along with you in the pristine waters. All of the water travels on thru and down the guiding canels and makes its way into a Cienega that was specifically designed for the purpose of saving two endangered species of fish. It has been a very successful project and you can view the fish they saved, underwater in a special viewing area. The water then travels downstream and is utilized for irrigation.
77,000 square feet (1 3/4 acres) and hold almost 4 million gallons of very fresh constantly cycling spring water that is constantly 72 - 74 degrees. The spring that feeds this pool (San Solomon Springs) pushes up 22 - 28 million gallons of water each day through the pool. The really cool part is that it has a deep section of 25 feet that is all natural bottom and has all natural fish species swimming right along with you in the pristine waters. All of the water travels on thru and down the guiding canels and makes its way into a Cienega that was specifically designed for the purpose of saving two endangered species of fish. It has been a very successful project and you can view the fish they saved, underwater in a special viewing area. The water then travels downstream and is utilized for irrigation.We had a blast and it was very hard for us to dry off and leave but the Rest of The Wild West was calling us forth.
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Hey Gang,
Your adventures seems ever so Happenin!!!!! that pool looks great.
I'm in Mississippi, at Camp Coast Care building homes for the Katrina victims. if you come by Sunday. Maybe we'll cross ways.
Si
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